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10/11/09
As Bob Dylan put it in "The Times They Are A'Changin'": Your old road is
rapidly agin'./ Please get out of the new one /If you can't lend your hand
If you're not going to actually do something to help further the cause of equality, stop pretending you stand with us. We can see right through it.
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Not good enough.
Better? Sure. But better than Bush isn't really a reasonable metric by which to measure the equality of so many US citizens and families.
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But Christ, this country's journey to social change for gays feels more like a long and complicated tooth extraction.
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this at least is a little more concrete, but I feel like a lot of his speeches are a whole lotta nothin dressed up up in pretty clothes.
I'm still hopeful. Not sure how much longer that hope is going to hold out, but it's still there for now.
yay equality!
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Obama, you give me a jingle when you repeal that act, and pass "domestic partners"/gay marriage.
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I want to know that our President knows he hasn’t got a carte blanche to tell us to be patient indefinitely. We want quantifiable, measurable progress and / or some sort of timeline, which isn’t unreasonable. Intent, intent, intent with little or no follow-through and this ridiculous hemming and hawing is exactly what he pledged to radically change in his inaugural speech, so specifics would be nice.
Also, I’d love to watch an old Clinton speech of comparable import and see how they differ or not.
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Jimmy Carter.
And this isn't meant as a negative towards Obama; its a fear of mine. Carter more or less shot himself in the foot by telling us we were screwed as a nation if we didn't change...and he was right. And that paved the way for the Regan era conservatives to, well, continue ruining anything. And given the current climate...well...
While I hope the right wing nutjobs shoot themselves in the foot and fail to get a mainstream candidate for 2012, everytime Obama says something like he said tonight that could pave the way for actual change...I get scared. But I'm glad he's trying. Rome wasn't built in a day.
As far as civil unions over marriage? Yes, ultimately...its wrong. But unfortunately, you can't push the issue in his climate without hurting the cause further. (I believe Roosevelt said something about this? I can't find the quote. But I know Clinton's rationale for signing the DOMA had to do with a political concession because it more or less reaffirms what already would have been Constiutional. Doesn't excuse my disgust over him signing it, but I understood why he did. And hated it.) Its the unfortunate reality of politics in his country and I can honestly say I hope to live in a country that will allow gay people to get married someday; I just don't know how many years we'll have to wait. :-/
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Remember when the sky was going to fall when the few states legalized gay marriage? It's almost become a non-issue. I bet the average conservative can't even name the states that have approved gay marriage. Or isn't even aware that legal gay marriage exists anywhere in this country.
Goddammit, I'd tired of this fucking country pandering to extreme wingnuts. That's what's wrong with the USA now. If we actually stand for freedom, equal rights, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, then legislating hate needs to be repealed yesterday.
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I guess I've had my hopes for this country dashed too many times; because I just can't be positive anymore. (Well, that and having gone to law school and gotten a different perspective on the nature of politics) I wish I could, but the fight is gone. And yes, I hate myself for saying that because, well...what right do I have to complain if I don't have enough faith in people to help the causes I care about? Its clear it still exists in some form; I just don't know how much that can do.
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Nonetheless, "Together, we will have moved closer to that day when no one has to be afraid to be gay in America. When no one has to be afraid to walk down the street holding the hand of the person they love." really resonated with me.
GOD AMERICA, GET OVER YOURSELF AND JUST ACCEPT LOVE ALREADY.
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But I'm trying super hard to be less skeptical about shit these days and less of an asshole about these things to encourage civil discourse. If this stays the same by the time New Year's gets here I will probably be singing a different damn tune.
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(b) absolutely needs to happen, and not merely just in our lifetimes. But if President Obama is having such trouble just articulating basic civil rights issues, I imagine the electoral college would be too complex a challenge.
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[yglesias.thinkprogress.org]
I understand the idea of the Senate is to prevent regional discrimination and steamrolling. But it's gone too far as the country's population grows (unevenly). I mean, WYOMING has as many senators as California? That's just not democratic.
Of course Yglesias is an uber-urbanite. One reservation I have, which is sort of irrational, is that I'm enough of a transplanted hick Midwesterner to still feel queasy about Yglesias's wet dream that we all live in beehives two feet from a downtown.
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I think that the crafting of the Senate and the House of Representatives was a brilliant move by our founding fathers, though I admit that term limits for Senators might improve things.
If anything, I think we should boost the number of Senators from each state (3, 4?) so that it becomes easier to communicate with our elected officials.
Gay marriage is an important issue, but, honestly, it's trivial compared to, for instance, the exploitation of coal miners in West Virginia, which is nothing short of pure evil. And that's a clear case of large and power states ignoring the issues of small ones.
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There have been almost 450 discharges under DADT since Obama was sworn in, despite the fact that he could end the policy by executive order (as Truman did with segregation in the military), or at least freeze the firings while ordering an investigation of the policy's effectiveness.
But no, he keeps saying Congressional approval is needed. As Jon Stewart said, "It's ***king chow time, brother." [www.thedailyshow.com]
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Also, I was wondering if anyone knew what a better solution to Don't Ask, Don't Tell would be. I'm not being sarcastic, I just would really like some literature on the solution to the problem.
Or is it the really obvious choice, and I am just being accidentally homophobic? (In which case, I'm sorry!)
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